Mexican Ouija board attack sends three to hospital (video)
Britain’s Daily Mail has the breathless bulletpoints:
Three American friends hospitalised after becoming ‘possessed’ following Ouija board game in Mexican village
- Alexandra Huerta, 22, reportedly playing with Ouija board in Mexican village
- Joined by her brother Sergio, 23, and 18-year-old cousin Fernando Cuevas
- But minutes into game, trio apparently started acting in a ‘trance-like state’
Mas…Mexican Ouija board attack sends three to hospital (video)
Area futbol fans celebrate El Tri’s 3-1 victory over Croatia (photo)
(PNS reporting from HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIFAS) Hundreds of local athletic supporters — fans of the Mexican World Cup futbol team — celebrated El Tri’s 3-1 victory over Croatia Monday afternoon (photo, above). The celebration was mostly peaceful and Huntington Park police said only four fans were arrested — three for disorderly conduct and one for leaning like a cholo in the wrong direction.
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Americans demand answers: Is my new neighbor Latino? (video)
What do they look like? How can we tell? Is my new neighbor a Latino? Please tell me #whatlatinoslooklike.
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Mas…Americans demand answers: Is my new neighbor Latino? (video)
Cheech Marin reveals what he has stashed in his bag (video)
Cheech Marin stopped by Amoeba Music in Hollywood to reveal the stash in his bag.
Previously, Lalo Alcaraz shared his music with Amoeba:
Mas…Cheech Marin reveals what he has stashed in his bag (video)
Brazil TV guy tries to punk Mexicans with extra-picante salsa (video)
When a Brazilian TV guy tries to prank visiting Mexican futbol fans with what he thinks is super-spicy salsa, it turns out the joke is actually on him. What’s uber picante in Brazil, tu sabes, ranks as “meh” to Mexicanos. One intended victim actually thinks Brazil-boy’s salsa is kind of “sweet.”
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Mas…Brazil TV guy tries to punk Mexicans with extra-picante salsa (video)
Iguanas everywhere? This must be Nicaragua (video)
“Traveling to Nicaragua with his family, a young boy finds the world a weirder, scarier, and more difficult place. And filled, stuffed, and absolutely teeming with iguanas,” explains creator Miguel Jeron. The L.A. resident calls his video LA-GAR-TO. We do not know if he rolls his RRRRRR’s.
MexiCanada: Montreal mayor fights poutine burritos – ‘pou-tos’
(PNS reporting from MONTREAL, QUEBEC) Authorities here are scrambling to halt the spread of a Mexicanized version of poutine, Canada’s beloved national dish of French fries covered with gravy and cheese.
The increasingly-popular poutine burrito, known as a “pou-to” or “poutito” (photo, above) has already swept through Montreal, and officials fear “pou-tos” will cross the Quebec provincial border into neighboring Ontario.
Mas…MexiCanada: Montreal mayor fights poutine burritos – ‘pou-tos’
Is Spanish-language TV futbol play-by-play racist? (audio)
When American Latinos watch Spanish-langugage FIFA broadcasts from Brazil, some are shocked by the casual use of words like “greña” and “moreno” that would be considered offensive in the U.S. This report from Public Radio International explores the controversy:
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Mas…Is Spanish-language TV futbol play-by-play racist? (audio)
Top 10 reasons we are against labor unions (toon)
[Image via UE Local 222.]
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Al Madrigal ruffles feathers in ‘Chicken Boxing’ exposé (video)
Al Madrigal (Señor Latino Correspondent on The Daily Show with Juan Estuard on basic cable and POCHO Migrant Editor on the Interwebs)* is the fox guarding the Louisiana henhouse in this exposé of the state’s cock-fighting and chicken-boxing rackets. That Al is as smart as a chicken.
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Mas…Al Madrigal ruffles feathers in ‘Chicken Boxing’ exposé (video)
WTF? Seriously, WTF? (toon)
DA FUQ? SMH! [Image by Scott Bateman via The Nib Comics.]
¡Ask A Mexican! Is yelling ‘puto’ at futbol homophobic? (NSFW video)
Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano continues on his World Cup kick with a discussion of the Mexican team’s performance in their tied match with Brazil and the spectators’ habit of calling the opposing team putos. [NSFW adult language.] P.S.: Spoiler warning: You may be a puto if….
Elise Roedenbeck: Uncle Sam’s Propaganda Video History Roundup
With the United States government hitting the digital airwaves with an anti-Boko Haram TV channel (we loved their Whiter Shade of Pale but kidnapping those girls in Nigeria was too much), our MiJA, Elise Roedenbeck, dusts off some old Uncle Sam propaganda for historical context and stuff. On the Twtter, btw, she’s @buttronica.
Overdub, multi window madness: Brazil, the musical (video)
YouTuber Dan Newbie plays bottles, pans, pots and salt shakers, overdubs his nalgas off, and runs through a bunch of Brazil-oriented tunes, the better to World Cup you with, my dear.
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Mas…Overdub, multi window madness: Brazil, the musical (video)
Dear gringa who wants to defend the Mexican food in New Jork
I read jur article ^^^^ on the google about the Los Angeles Mexican food is not better than the New Jork food but different. Tia Lencha’s chonies are in a bunch. Is that how ju say? Ju don know what ju are talking about.
These are the reasons gwhy:
- In jur articulo, ju spend mos jur time talking about Los Angeles. That is because it has a long history of Mexican people live there. Even ju say that it used to be Mexico, tonta!
- Ju say the Yelpers jelp it, the media and the general peoples all say Los Angeles Mexican food is better. Thas a lot of peoples.
- “Get the fuck over it” and “blah, blah, blah” are no legitimate argumentations.
Mas…Dear gringa who wants to defend the Mexican food in New Jork
He’s been to the desert on a banana with one name: Bonito (video)
A wrenching tale of a desert crossing: A lone banana on a mission to el otro lado. Can Bonito make it?
Mexico-Brazil fútbol generates an F-bomb on Irish TV (NSFW video)
Inspired by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s L.A Kings F-bomb on live TV, on-the-air sports presenters in Ireland dropped the bomb during halftime of Tuesday’s Mexico-Brazil match. [NSFW adult language if someone there at your job can understand the thick Irish brogues. It’s more like “fookin” or something.]
Those Taiwanese animators recap the Spurs’ NBA victory (video)
Maybe you didn’t see the San Antonio Spurs smoke the Miami Heat 104-87 for the NBA crown Sunday night, or maybe you want to relive the glory. Those wacky Taiwanese animators at TomoNews are here to help.
Meanwhile in San Antonio (NSFW video):
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- Flaco Jimenez vs Los Gabachos: ‘El Mojado Sin Licencia’ (music video)
John Oliver: Immigrants are just all right with me (NSFW video)
Foreigner John Oliver (formerly of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and currently fronting Last Week Tonight) has been through the immigration system, and he has some advice for the GOP. (NSFW language.)
Dateline Brazil: Don’t sleep on the job or else! (video)
We present this video, said to be from Brazil, as a cautionary tale about the hazards of trying to catch a few Z’s on the job. Kids: Don’t try this at home.
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Mas…Dateline Brazil: Don’t sleep on the job or else! (video)
Tiny gringa eats 2-pound multi-chile ‘Diablo Burrito’ in 3:23 (video)
Competitive eater Molly Schuyler (all 125 pounds of her) takes on “the world’s hottest burrito” at Allan’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant in PDX. Can she show the same competitive spirit and stamina that helped her finish a 72-ounce steak in a previous webisode? The 2-pound “wet” Diablo Burrito is filled with rice, beans and habanero, serrano, Bhut Jolokia, Carolina Reaper and Trinidad Scorpion chiles. Allan challenges patrons to finish the $20 burrito bomb in 10 minutes to win the acclaim of the nation and get their burrito money back.
Aaron, who produced Molly’s Diablo Burrito web video, needed over 8 minutes when he tried to finish the Diablo Burrito himself:
Mas…Tiny gringa eats 2-pound multi-chile ‘Diablo Burrito’ in 3:23 (video)
Undocumented strangers meet and share their secrets (video)
Director Rocsi Diaz’s short video The Secrets of Strangers explores what happens when undocumented immigrants reveal their status to people they have just met — other undocumented immigrants.
Mas…Undocumented strangers meet and share their secrets (video)
Too busy to make new enemies? Try MyNemesis·com (video)
With work, family and just plain living, it can be real hard to make enemies. Ready and willing to help you with that problem is brand new MyNemesis·com, where someone to hate is only a click away.
Here’s their introductory video: